Hi guys, been a lurker for some months and I though I'd introduce myself by writing some lines to motivates those of you that are tempting to let the rust overtake the weights....

Nuthin' fancy, just some ol' poetry that is the result of a lack of carbs ; ) and a very long day at work

Here's ya go, food for thought !

It's him againI've seem him in my dreams latelyThis ghost that always seems to plague my nights and haunt my days

This dream that threatens to tip the scalesI have been here before, again and again on the shores of timeI know I have faced this beforeI know I have no choice this time

This path I have started so long agoThis path I never thought would be so treacherous... so costly

Many times I swayed and let my eyes envy those away from the pain and the tormentThe scorching pain of discipline, of severity to body, soul and mind eating at my sanity a

little more each dayThose endless hours of devotion without hope of gainWith only me to fight against, to force my shell to changeAll around me whispers of surrender and conformityWith nothing but the dull solitary sound of metal to mark my progress

But there is no trophy I yearnNo title to make my name completeI don't live for an hour, an event or a yearI've lived the exaltation of triumph and the perils of defeatI've seen this shell break and grow under my will

Each time I sensed letting go of it all I found my path was still going forwardSteps of steel with balls of iron in my hands; my course was set and would not falterA tower of iron will built from everlasting dedicationResolve honed by the tons of steels it struggled day in, day out

I've pushed apathy into the night and kicked sloth with the morning mistI've wrestled my fears with screams of devotion and drowned my doubts in crimson sweatsI've torned and teared each fiber of my body in search of atrophyI've been dragged and beaten up by it but always I came backI've dreamt those things I thought I couldn't do before and awoke knowing them all to close

I know I've got limits, but those only I will imposeI know I cannot fail; I know there is but one outcomeAs failing a life's journey would be letting go of myselfTo let go of the dream we each strive forTo let the ghost blur with each passing day away from it all

And this is a treachery worse than death, Not because I'm too scared to fight

But because I know all too well That if I let it eat at me while I still standThat if I let it beat my today,I won't be able to wake it upThis passion that will sleep inside of me